Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation

Ivan Vasilievich Menyaet Professiyu

Synopsis

Absent-minded inventor Shurik has built a time machine in his Moscow apartment. Due to the machine’s malfunctioning, his apartment complex manager Ivan Vasilievich and a suave burglar are transposed back to the times of Ivan the Terrible, while the dreaded Czar himself turns up in modern-day Moscow.

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I like watching movies that are very popular in other countries. This is a very broad comedy by Bulgakov that is also a sci-fi movie. It uses time-travel as a means to social satire. How would Ivan the Terrible deal with modern life, and how would an apartment manager deal with being Ivan the Terrible. ‘I demand continuation of the banquet!'